Scott Pruitt, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, recently announced the repeal of the Clean Power Plan. His rule change does not offer a replacement plan for regulating emissions of carbon dioxide. This repeal puts our environment, our futures and the entire world at risk.

As residents of Burlington County, we not only face threats to our health from federal policy, but from policies instituted by our own county freeholders. Bruce Garganio, one of the current freeholders up for re-election, has long been a supporter of putting gas pipelines through the Pinelands.

Statewide, most freeholders have stood firm in opposing fossil fuel infrastructure. The proposed pipeline project, both unnecessary and unwanted, will not provide natural gas to one resident of the county. However, the short-sighted decision making of Mr. Garganio and his cohorts will leave Burlington County taxpayers cleaning up brownfields and Superfund sites in the decades to come.

Because I want change and representatives who commit to preserving clean air, fresh water and my way of life, I am supporting Tom Pullion and Balvir Singh for freeholder. We need representatives with the foresight to embrace clean and green energy infrastructure and the exciting new job prospects this industry offers. I want representatives who choose people over pipelines. I want representatives invested in protecting and preserving the environment of my county and my state.

I urge all Burlington County residents to consider their health, the environment and the world they will leave to their children. Your vote means something on Nov. 7. Vote for Tom Pullion and Balvir Singh for Burlington County freeholder.